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Merry Christmas, baby : a Christmas and Kwanzaa treasury / edited by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell.
LIBRA Rare GT4986.A1 M47 1996 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas--United States.
- Christmas.
- United States.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- Kwanzaa.
- Christmas--Literary collections.
- American literature--African American authors.
- African Americans--Literary collections.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 221 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996.
- Summary:
- Presents stories, sermons, reminiscences, poetry, recipes and color reproductions of African-American fine art, for celebrating the Christmas and Kwanzaa season.
- Contents:
- This is Christmas / Howard Thurman
- Christmas festivities / Harriet Jacobs
- Letter to Mrs. Josephine Bruce / Roscoe Conklin Bruce
- Christmas at Melrose / Leslie Pinckney Hill
- When Christmas comes / Jessie Fauset
- Who gives himself / Eunice Roberta Hunton
- A Christmas carol / Frances E.W. Harper
- The sermon in the cradle / W.E.B. Du Bois
- Self-portrait 'round midnight / Arnold J. Kemp
- A Black Creole Christmas / Leah Chase
- A remembrance of Christmas dinners past, present, and future / Patrick Clark
- Christmas in Freetown / Edna Lewis
- The night before Christmas / Alexander Smalls
- A Christmas heirloom / Danella Carter
- Ten pecan pies / Clarence Major
- A winter twilight / Angelina Weld Grimke
- Eve / Valerie Wilson Wesley
- My father's telescope / Rita Dove
- The gift / Dorothy West
- Christmas Eve: my mother dressing / Toi Derricotte
- My mother hated being poor / Pearl Cleage
- Gift / Carol Freeman
- Death by coffee / Aleks D. Pate
- The ragged stocking / Frances E.W. Harper
- This Christmas / Nelson George
- Nine Holiday haiku / Lenard D. Moore
- The first Christmas
- December 1978 / Mary Carter Smith
- Christmas lullaby for a new-born child / Yvonne Gregory
- A Christmas sermon on peace / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Christmas greetings / Georgia Douglas Johnson
- The Christmas spirit / Ishmael Reed
- Flame-heart / Claude McKay
- Memories of Christmas / Langston Hughes
- Anna makes a deal / Nancy J. Fairley
- The word according to Matthew / P.K. McCary
- From "Prayers for dark people" (in the solemn silence) / W.E.B. Du Bois
- Christmas song / Langston Hughes
- Notice the mistletoe / Daryl Cumber Dance
- I'm not dreaming of a white Christmas / Julianne Malveaux
- A holiday letter from the Justice family
- From Prayers for dark people (teach us, O God) / W.E.B. Du Bois
- Celebration / Sandra Kitt
- Kwanzaa: first fruits / Imani Constance Johnson-Burnett
- From Prayers for dark people (O thou incarnate word) / W.E.B. Du Bois
- Merry Christmas, baby / Pearl Cleage
- Falalalalalalalala / Nikki Giovanni
- At Yule tide / William S. Braithwaite
- From Prayers for dark people (protect us, O God) / W.E.B. Du Bois
- Receiving the Christ / Michael Beckwith
- The work of Christmas / Howard Thurman.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Moira and Company, Chicago, Illinois."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0060173955 :
- 9780060173951
- OCLC:
- 34283880
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